Katana Revisited...

Robert Herndon said:
Exactly!!!

$129.00 for a unsold demo Line 6 Spider II 150 watt head. $150.00 for a Jackson 4X12" cabinet from the studio...found another through a colleague for $125...
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I’ve played through some Line 6 stuff, and it does not behave as my other amps do. I’m glad it works for you. It’s too...”squishy” for me...and not the good, chocolate cream pie kinda squishy...I’m talking the “oh my goodness, what did I just step in” kinda squishy. It just doesn’t feel right to me.

Gibson Lab Series amps were solid state, and had a solid feel to them. They reacted well to playing dynamics. I had a L5 for a while. Great SS amp. Bought it from a friend, and he politely asked to buy it back, so I sold it back to him. It wasn’t exactly “light, and/or portable” though.
 
Thatbastarddon said:
I’ve played through some Line 6 stuff, and it does not behave as my other amps do. I’m glad it works for you. It’s too...”squishy” for me...and not the good, chocolate cream pie kinda squishy...I’m talking the “oh my goodness, what did I just step in” kinda squishy. It just doesn’t feel right to me.

Gibson Lab Series amps were solid state, and had a solid feel to them. They reacted well to playing dynamics. I had a L5 for a while. Great SS amp. Bought it from a friend, and he politely asked to buy it back, so I sold it back to him. It wasn’t exactly “light, and/or portable” though.
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Oh, certainly!!!! I was just applying your logic to my recent acquisition.
 
Thatbastarddon said:
I’ve played through some Line 6 stuff, and it does not behave as my other amps do. I’m glad it works for you. It’s too...”squishy” for me...and not the good, chocolate cream pie kinda squishy...I’m talking the “oh my goodness, what did I just step in” kinda squishy. It just doesn’t feel right to me.

Gibson Lab Series amps were solid state, and had a solid feel to them. They reacted well to playing dynamics. I had a L5 for a while. Great SS amp. Bought it from a friend, and he politely asked to buy it back, so I sold it back to him. It wasn’t exactly “light, and/or portable” though.
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I had a Spider IV 75 and I never made friends with it. The tones were just not right and anytime you changed profiles you may have been blown across the room...
 
Sp8ctre said:
I had a Spider IV 75 and I never made friends with it. The tones were just not right and anytime you changed profiles you may have been blown across the room...
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I only use the very basics - reverb, delay and noise gate. I'm quite certain it does much more, but that replaces all my pedals...
 
I repaired a Line6 Spider 75 or 150w or something head for a friend at work, turns out the whole output module let out the factory smoke.
I played it for an hour or so at least 3 or so times.
It had a ton of effects and presets and emulations.
No matter what I did, it just never felt "alive", not sure how to say it.

But, similar to above, I have read and tend to generally believe the audience will not know the shortcomings gig wise.
I spoke to the owner and discussed some of what he played on the presets he made.
He is a legit gigging part time musician with a day job, I am not near his skill level.
But I riffed around on similar things.
I wanted to like it, but could not at the time.
In this context now I can.

But I dont like it.
 
gball said:
This thread has convinced me I need to buy another tube amp.
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I think if you just play what you have you will know what you already know is right for you.
And I am leaning toward regarding your statement as mostly rhetorical.
 
jtcnj said:
I repaired a Line6 Spider 75 or 150w or something head for a friend at work, turns out the whole output module let out the factory smoke.
I played it for an hour or so at least 3 or so times.
It had a ton of effects and presets and emulations.
No matter what I did, it just never felt "alive", not sure how to say it.

But, similar to above, I have read and tend to generally believe the audience will not know the shortcomings gig wise.
I spoke to the owner and discussed some of what he played on the presets he made.
He is a legit gigging part time musician with a day job, I am not near his skill level.
But I riffed around on similar things.
I wanted to like it, but could not at the time.
In this context now I can.

But I dont like it.
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That totally rings true to me.
The back line, that I mentioned in another post, was provided by a regularly gigging “new country” band. They’re popular around the area, and put on a good show...just not my thing.
Very skilled players, all of them...and they all have rock, or metal projects...but the “new country” band pays the bills.
They make the amps sound good enough live, but there’s no “life” to them(the amps, and guitar sounds). It’s almost like playing a keyboard with weird sensitivity settings.
 
Thatbastarddon said:
The first 5 minutes of this video convinced me that the 50 would get the job done on the dirty sound front.
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gball said:
No. They sound nice but don’t do anything I don’t already have in my Mesas.

The Jubilee’s do that medium-gain crunch thing that Marshalls (real ones) do better than anything else. I got high-gain to spare, but that Jubilee tone is unique and calling my name.
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Exactly. The Katana sounds good, but still to me has as certain sterility, but good for the job.
Listen here starting at about 1 min in. I dont think the Katana can do this, but a medium gain, say 18w, I think gets it.
It's just not the same. Tool for the job, yes, but almost makes you cum, nope.

 
jtcnj said:
Exactly. The Katana sounds good, but still to me has as certain sterility, but good for the job.
Listen here starting at about 1 min in. I dont think the Katana can do this, but a medium gain, say 18w, I think gets it.
It's just not the same. Tool for the job, yes, but almost makes you cum, nope.

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Yep...there’s life in that recording, for sure.
 
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